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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 780 EAN: 9780425226001 ISBN: 042522600X Label: Berkley Trade Manufacturer: Berkley Trade Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: September 30, 2008 Publisher: Berkley Trade Studio: Berkley Trade Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Now a major motion pictureAn intimate portrait of mental illness, of atrocious social neglect, and the struggle to resurrect a fallen prodigy. (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down) This is the true story of journalist Steve Lopezs discovery of Nathaniel Ayers, a former classical bass student at Julliard, playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles Skid Row. Deeply affected by the beauty of Ayerss music, Lopez took it upon himself to change the prodigys lifeonly to find that their relationship has had a profound change on his own life. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A dishy little epicThe book is fantastic. I picked it up last night, and I hadn't been able to put it down, but for sleep and work, until I finished today. Lopez writes with the good humor and honest introspection of a news columnist, but for an entire three hundred pages instead of 1000 words. The crux of the story remains Steve Lopez' good-natured cajoling of schizophrenic Nathaniel Ayers into treatment, and the world that broke him. The story is simple. Lopez hears Ayers as a street musician, realizes that he sounds ... Read More Rating:  - Thank You Mr. LopezSteve Lopez has written a masterpiece shedding light on mental illness, social work, the lack of government support, the human spirit and the homeless. The Soloist takes the reader on a journey inside one mans heart as he tries to help a lost soul -- Mr. Ayers. So many up and downs are had that in the end he realizes that some things can't be fixed and he can truly only provide the one thing that all of us need -- friendship. As a nation we are spending billions of dollars trying to bring democracy ... Read More Rating:  - Lopez Is Back!The Soloist recaptures the passion for the story that made THIRD AND INDIANA great. Written in a reporter's style, this is a story that will make an even better movie. Rating: - An uplifting and touching storyIn The Soloist, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez tells the touching story of his friendship with Nathaniel Ayers, a gifted musician with a mental illness who ended up on Skid Row. In 1972, Ayers was a student at prestigious Julliard. His bizarre behavior, however, landed him in the psychiatric emergency room at Bellevue Hospital. Diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, Ayers took medication, tried counseling and even shock therapy, but nothing seemed to work. He eventually ended up ... Read More Rating: - the soloistI bought this book two days ago and it is amazing it shows how everybody has a past I kind of picked it at random and was spectacular but I have to say this book is not for younger kids they say some mild cusses but it is not that frequent so I would say if you are 11+ go for it younger kids may actully not understand words this book is amazing 
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